She was born in Atlanta, GA, but her family moved to Maplewood, NJ, when she was seven, and she has lived there ever since.
Newspaper articles from a 1973 court case regarding the film Deep Sleep (1972) refer to Kim Pope as either Kathryn (Kim) Pope or Katherine Victoria Pope.
She described her ex-husband Bob Hudson as "a gangster who turned abusive". He eventually went to prison and died there.